Each "Communication Corner" essay is self-contained; however, they build on each other. For best results, before reading this and doing the exercise, go to first "How an Ugly Duckling Became a Swan," then read succeeding essay. This based article originally published in 2012. Although aimed specifically at journalists, it contains considerable good advice for all expository (non-fiction) writer...

i. Introduction The study of text understanding and knowlegde extraction has been actively done by many researchers. The authors also studied a method of structured information extraction from texts without a global text analysis. The method is available for a comparatively sbort text such as a patent claim clause and an abstract of a technical paper. This paper describes tile outline of a meth...

PURPOSES To investigate, in the oral retelling after reading process, the syntactic markers capable of characterizing different clinical groups of developmental reading disabilities. METHODS Thirty-two Brazilian students were evaluated: dyslexic group (DG) - 16 individuals were diagnosed with developmental dyslexia; control group (CG) - 16 individuals did not present reading difficulties when...

Traditionally, in technical expository writing, illustrations are treated as adjuncts to the text where the reader is referred to the illustrations by the text which describes or explains the illustration rather than being tightly integrated into the narrative. Recent research in cognitive psychology is producing a new set of guidelines that define how to effectively use illustrations. Based on...

The purpose of this research was to find the effect of various strategies of learning towards writing skill of scientific work. The study was conducted on students of Indonesian Language and Literature Faculty of Language and Literature, State University of Makassar. The type of research was experimental research. The population of the study was all students of the Department of Language and Li...

The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...

This single subject study concerned how a 13 year-old student with specific learning disabilities used metacognition as he composed discourse in response to a writing prompt. Ethnographic procedures were used to collect and analyze data. The participant engaged in a think aloud procedure as he composed a paper about a famous historical figure. His transcribed verbalizations were analyzed by use...